MiWay Insurance Consultants Have a Concern for Community Safety

With an awareness of the increased rate of crime and uncertainty of living, concern of the insurance consultants of MiWay for the general safety of the community of South Africa has subsequently also increased. As such this insurance company has set in a place a number of community safety projects services as part of a project which focuses on an aim to improve the social conditioning of South Africans by restoring a safety to the community and hence instill a sense of peace in the minds of individuals.

Community safety projects which are being carried out by MiWay as of present include:

• Arrive Alive Traffic Patrol Vehicles:
  • With 120 traffic patrol vehicles patrolling the most hazardous locations of the country, the aims of this project is to promote road safety.
  • The hope of MiWay with this community safety project is that a reduction in road accidents will mean a reduction in claims, hereby allowing them to offer lower premiums and pay out more rewards to clients.
  • This project will not only benefit MiWay and its clients but the broader community as well.
  
  
• The Pointsmen Initiative:
  • This project takes the form of an innovative collaboration effort between the Johannesburg Metropolitan Police Department and MiWay, whereby 21 pointsmen are allocated to specific streets of Johannesburg. Their purpose, to relieve traffic congestion on roads leading to the economic hub of Johannesburg which is Sandton.
  • Recently this project has been extended to the Midrand and Randburg areas.
  • The purpose of MiWay with the development of this project: "It is a question of actively putting something back into the community, creating employment and alleviating some of the traffic problems".
    
• Business Against Crime:
  • This is a partnership between the South African Police Service and Business Against Crime with MiWay for sponsoring the Gauteng Anti-hijacking task teams, whose successes to reduce hijackings in Gauteng in a relative short period have been phenomenal.
  • MiWay recently held a ceremony in honour of the project and awarded the best members and teams for their outstanding contributions to improving community safety.
    
• Car Wreck Trailers:
  • In partnership with the Gauteng Department of Community Safety, car wreck trailers with safety messages are at the following Arrive Alive satellite stations:
    • Buccleuch interchange on the N1
    • Heidelberg N3 to Durban / De Hoek Toll Plaza
    • Wallmanstahl N1 to Limpopo